With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how to use this open source software to quickly build a virtual machine for any purpose—including a completely sandboxed, fully provisioned development environment right on your desktop.

This book describes the technology behind the latest generation of Wi-Fi, including new coding and channel layouts for higher raw speed, as well as technology that underlies beamforming and multi-user MIMO for even greater efficiency.

This is the perfect on-the-job companion to Git, the distributed version control system. It provides a compact, readable introduction to Git for new users, as well as a reference to common commands and procedures for those of you with Git experience.

This book teaches you how TypeScript provides optional static typing and classes to JavaScript development, how to create and load modules, and how to work with existing JavaScript libraries through ambient declarations.

This book educates JavaScript developers, from novice to expert, about the impact that ECMAScript 6 has had on the language, and demonstrates the powerful new constructs that are accessible in the ECMAScript 6 API.

It answers questions like how can you tap into social data generated by Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, etc. and discover who’s connecting with whom, which insights are lurking just beneath the surface, and what people are talking about?

This book provides an overview of Java 7 features that will please developers, including strings in switch statements, multi-catch exception handling, try-with-resource statements, the new File System API, extensions of the JVM, etc.

This book explores new and relevant numerical methods for the solution of practical problems in finance. It is one of the few books entirely devoted to numerical methods as applied to the financial field.

Going beyond the conventional mathematics of probability theory, this study views the subject in a wider context. It discusses new results, along with applications of probability theory to a variety of problems.

This book gives readers advice on how to survive the first few weeks of redundancy. It explains how to redefine one's work motivations, how to create a professional job search strategy and network one's skills and how to approach self-employment.